Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives - and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.

Elijah Cummings

Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No - we will not do that.

Elijah Cummings

Every time something bad happens to me, I don't ask the question, 'Why did it happen to me?' The question I ask is, 'Why did it happen for me?'

Elijah Cummings

Voting is crucial, and I don't give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That's not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

Elijah Cummings

My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.

Elijah Cummings

You must have confidence in your competence.

Elijah Cummings

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

Elijah Cummings

Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives - and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.

Elijah Cummings

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.

Elijah Cummings

I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.

Elijah Cummings

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

Elijah Cummings

I'm going to do what feeds my soul.

Elijah Cummings

I try to remind people that there are a lot of good people, all colors. Then there's some bad ones, too. But there's a lot of good people who really care.

Elijah Cummings

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

Elijah Cummings

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

Elijah Cummings

I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I don't have time to be patient.

Elijah Cummings

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

Elijah Cummings

I was in special ed, but I felt like I was a caged bird. I felt like I could do better. I made sure I mastered my special ed lessons. I made sure I listened to my teacher. I made sure I did my homework, but I had to do a little extra.

Elijah Cummings

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

Elijah Cummings

The long-standing, non-partisan and publicly-declared foreign policy commitment of the United States is clear. We will do whatever is required to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear weapons. Our nation has not ruled out any option that may be required to achieve this objective, including the use of military force.

Elijah Cummings

Price gouging for drugs that treat cancer in children is simply unconscionable.

Elijah Cummings